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A little over two weeks ago, I wrote about a portfolio that had returned +516.8%.
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A little over two weeks ago, I wrote about a portfolio that had returned +516.8%.

For most of the AI boom, the semiconductor investment map was fairly easy to understand.

Hard drives were supposed to be dying.

Hendrik Bessembinder, at Arizona State, has spent years asking a question that sounds almost silly until you look at the data: if the stock market creates enormous wealth in aggregate, why do most individual stocks fail?

If you missed it, read it after this one rather than before.

Here’s a comfortable lie most retail investors believe: “It’s publicly traded, so it’s regulated, so it’s transparent.”

There’s an accusation that has been circulating in the serious corners of asset management for a few years now, sharpened mostly by Cliff Asness of AQR.

I spent years being right about companies and wrong about returns.

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Cat bonds (catastrophe bonds) returned about 10.2% over the year to July 2026.